Configuring SolarWinds Orion

Below is steps for first configuring Orion after installation. If Orion not installed yet, you can follow this related article for installation, Installing SolarWinds Orion.

Orion configuration wizard :

1. After installation finished, you will see Orion configuration wizard
   
   
   
   Click Next.
2. In SQL Server, type your SQL Server hostname. Use Windows Authentication.
   
   
   
   Click Next.
3. Create a new database
   
   
   
   Click Next.
4. And create a new account.
   
   
   
   Next.
5. In website setting, you need to specify the IP address, port, and the location for the Orion website as seen below.
   
   
   
   Then click Next.
6. Specify the services to install. If you want to install SolarWinds Trap Service as seen below, please make sure that SNMP service is installed in your machine.
   
   If you dont know how to install SNMP service, follow this instruction :
   Go to Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs >> Add/Remove Windows Components >> click on Management and Monitoring Tools >> click Details >> check on Simple Network Management Protocol >> OK >> Next >> Finish.
   
   Then you can continue to next steps of Orion configuration wizard.
   
   
   
   Next.
7. Click Next to start configuration of the selected actions.
   
   
8. Below is the process configuration.
   
   
9. And then confiration pocess is completed, click finish.